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It drives me nuts. And then there's a guy. Well, he was in college about more than a year ago. This man is already trying to get to the playoffs. I don't know about all that, man. We'll tell you about Will Leviss in a second. Major League Baseball is trying to do this rivalry week thing starting next year. I'm like, do we need this?
Y'all used to have this baked into the season and it didn't need any fancy marketing. Lamar Jackson and Troy Aikman are legally beefing over the number eight. Kevin Durant actually practiced basketball. Tiger Woods needs to find something else to do like coach's son. Emory Hunt is going to join us next hour. Talk all things football with Emory Hunt.
Covers football for football game plan, CBS Sports HQ. Tonight is a big night in the WNBA out in Phoenix, Arizona. The women are having their skills competitions. No Kaitlyn Clark, though, sorry. She said no to the three point contest. Can you blame her? I guess Kaitlyn Clark is sick and tired of being everybody's show pony. She just wants to take her month long break, playing tomorrow's game and come back in a month and help the Indiana fever into the postseason. Kaitlyn Clark will disappear off the face of the earth for about a month. Good for her. She deserves it. All the money that she's making. Hickey.
Now, now with all this money in the WNBA, this is a prime opportunity for me to find a WNBA wife. Oh, interesting. OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, don't they have a new TV deal later? The commissioner said not so fast, but they're making all this money now. They are one day.
Maybe I could stop working. That would be nice. Would you go to every game? Yes. I mean, I sit front row. Yeah.
OK. All right. Put put her jersey on and everything. First team all hype. Yeah, I would. I put a jersey on.
I wear a ball cap. I cheer and stand up. Yeah, of course. The only I would say there's only one downside to that.
I got to take selfies and stuff. Well, no, I'm not going to I'm not going to be like Matthew Stafford's wife, OK? I'm not going to be like her. No, you're not going to start a podcast talking about the team chemistry. And no, I'm not going to talk about making making her jealous. No, I'm not going to do any of that.
I'm not going to. What's the opposite of a of a mask elation? What is that for? What would that be? I don't even know. The mask elation. I don't know.
Yeah, I'm going to empower my WNBA wife. Yes. But what was it? What was your question?
I can't do what now? Well, the only downside is that the season is in the middle of summer. Yeah.
Your summer in terms of spending it with her is lost because obviously she's in the middle of the season. That kind of stinks. Again, that's that's a trade off that I think most people would take. But they don't they don't play a lot. Right. I mean.
I mean, the seasons, I don't in terms of number of games, I don't know, but I mean, was it made in September? The the the what they call it, wives and girlfriends. They don't go to every game. Wags.
Yeah. I hate that term. Wags. The wives and girlfriends. They don't go to every game. No husbands in the habs. You'd be the hab.
Husband and boyfriend. Yeah. So you just go to the home games then? I guess. Yeah. You know what? I need to start hanging out around the dream. That's what I need to do.
But they always play when I'm on the air. So that's. There you go. You'd never see her.
At least in the summer during the season. Well, we I don't know if we have anybody here makes enough money. Well, that's that's something you got away.
You know, you can't you can't quit your job and live off of that if, you know, we're talking about, you know, not enough income to support both of you. Yeah. Would you still date a WNBA player if you had to work? No, no. I'm going to wait for them to make more money and then I'm going to get involved. OK. Give me I can wait two more years. Two two years. You think three more years? What is the deal going to affect next year or two years from now? So, yeah, within the near future, you should be you could be set.
We'll say if I'm going to go if I'm going, I'm going for the goal. I'm going to wait for Kaitlyn Clark to break up with that boyfriend of hers. Oh, they said they they said they love each other, right? So you got to drive a wedge in there somehow. Yeah. Well, the old jokes, people, old jokes. Somebody is going to get angry at me. I put that out there.
You have to be in trouble tomorrow again. Anyway. Anyway, I don't know, people speaking of people saying crazy things, you like that transition, Nicky? I do.
And it's very fitting, unfortunately. Speaking of people saying crazy different ways, people saying crazy. I sure can.
I sure can. There's a man in the NFL who said a crazy thing and I appreciate his his optimism. I appreciate his youthful exuberance. I'm talking about Will Leviss.
Yeah, Will Leviss. For the Tennessee Titans, the man who had to sit in the green room a little more than a year ago. He got that Kyle Filipowski treatment without all of Kyle Filipowski's troubles. Shout out to Kyle Filipowski on the Utah Jazz and his you know, I don't know how old she is, a 55 year old girlfriend. I don't know. 20 something, whatever.
I don't know how old she is. But Will Leviss, he don't got those problems. Besides having to sit around in the green room, he eventually was drafted by the Tennessee Titans. And then ultimately he got a job because Ryan Tannehill is old and busted up. Ryan Tannehill, his leg gave out and then Ryan Tannehill could no longer throw the ball to the right team. He caught a little bit of that Sam Darnold syndrome.
OK. He forgot what color he needed to throw the ball to. Tennessee Titans wear blue.
Don't throw it to the red team. So Will Leviss took over and I like what he did. Almost 2000 yards, passing eight touchdowns, four interceptions.
Fun stuff. Tennessee Titans still stunk, though, six and eleven. Derek Henry is now gone. I thought it was one of the dumbest decisions ever to get rid of their head coach.
It's ridiculous. Mike Rabel gone. In comes Brian Callahan, who is the offensive coordinator with the Cincinnati Bengals. In comes Calvin Ridley from Jacksonville, trading in a luxurious need because the Kansas City Chiefs couldn't pay him.
And Will Leviss said that, you know, it's time for us to turn the corner. And make the playoffs like he's eager to make and good as he should. What else are you playing for? I just think that's overly optimistic when you think about the other teams that are playing in the AFC East South. Got the Colts. Got the Jags. And you got the Texans who shocked everybody last year.
I appreciate the optimism. Like, what the hell else are you playing for? And I like Will Leviss. Hickey doesn't like him. I like him. But playoffs?
You all are probably going to be the worst team in the division. But I appreciate Will Leviss. You want to know why?
Because this man does not give a damn about what I say or you say or what Hickey says. It's what he said in June. I don't hear much of it. I don't say I wouldn't. I used to be someone who kind of like take that stuff and use it to fuel me.
But I feel like now I just I have my only source motivation is internal. And I'm not going to let anyone else's opinions define kind of how I work so they can say what they want. And we're going to go out there on Sundays and do our best to prove them wrong. That's the attitude they have. Damn right. Can't let outside noise change and dictate who and what you do.
Terrible idea. You know what? His new head coach, Brian Callahan. He said this in June as well, a couple of weeks ago. He loves Will Leviss so far. One of the things I enjoy about Will is he's incredibly coachable. He's got a great perspective and he's got great awareness of his body mechanics.
You know, some guys, it's a natural thing. They just feel what you're coaching. And he's done a great job. I think he sees the benefit in his mechanical improvement and his accuracy. Been really pleased with with how much he's taken and translated into actually doing it, which has been fun to watch.
I love it. Coaches say brand new things all the time. Body mechanics.
That's the first time I heard that in an interview. You talk about his throwing mechanics. Is he good? Is he fluid? Can he drop back and his arm of his hip, back foot, front foot?
He knows what the hell he's doing. OK. Let's see what Will Leviss does this year. Tennessee Titans will be good. I think they'll be better than the six wins they had last year. They'll they'll miss out on the playoffs.
Come on. Tennessee Titans will miss out on the playoffs. Hopefully they get into the playoffs before they move into their new building in twenty twenty seven.
Construction expected to begin in twenty. Twenty four. Hickey, have you been down in Nashville? No, unfortunately, I have not. Yeah. Last last time I heard anything about Nashville, it was that there's a young lady on the street who did that dirty interview. You remember that lady? Oh, how can I not? How can anyone forget? Oh, is she still famous?
That's a great question. Well, like, can you say yes? Are we allowed to say what she said? We're not allowed to say that, right?
The what the her name or what she said. Exactly what she said. I mean, I can't say exactly.
I'm not saying exactly. That's I mean, I guess you could say like the Hawk to a girl. Yeah, you could say that. Yeah. OK, we can say a hawk to a girl. And that's OK. She's not famous anymore. Fifteen minutes is up.
I would say. I mean, has anyone heard of her since I know she was at Zach Brian's concert. I've not really heard of, you know, heard of her doing anything since. So she was with Shaq. With Shaq.
She was with Shaq now gone into the abyss back in Bristol, Tennessee. Well, anyway, I'm sure she's a big Tennessee Titans fan. Good luck to the Titans in there. The new stadium.
Hopefully they have better luck in their stadium than that. What's that place that that the Microsoft man is building Steve Ballmer? What's that place? The Intuit Dome with all the toilets and stuff, right?
You know it. What else are they doing in there? They got the wall. They got the fan wall where there will be no fans because who wants to see that crap he's about to put out there. What else? What else they got?
Oh, you ready for this? This is the latest from Steve Ballmer. It's the toilets. It's the fan wall. And now what he has fought off the T-shirt toss. He said it's unfair for fans in the upper deck that the T-shirt toss basically is only for people on the lower deck, whether it's the guns on the floor, the people throwing it, you know, you rarely get the T-shirts up there. So what has Steve Ballmer done to combat this lower bowl T-shirt toss problem? He has installed T-shirt cannons into the Halo scoreboard. Oh my God. So now during the T-shirt toss, they'll be shooting out of the scoreboard for fans in the upper deck to now get a chance to get a T-shirt.
Let's go to a game and sit in the upper deck. This guy is unbelievable. You want to know why? Lawsuit. Lawsuit.
What are you jumping in front of the T-shirt? Oh, my eye. Yeah, absolutely. Here's a hundred million dollar settlement. You can't law.
You can't law. It has to have force, right? You can't lob a T-shirt from the sky. It has to be shot. At least on the video that video fly by night on social media has posted video. This video.
There's video they to you to your chagrin. It does not look like the T-shirts are coming in with a lot of force. They are kind of not to say dropping but it's you know, they're not they're not getting shot out of a gun 10 feet away from it. They there's some there's a little arc to it. They need to why don't they just use one of them things called parachutes.
They could do that. Oh, I see it. The Halo board has its own T-shirt tossing cannon. Okay. It's coming out the top. Okay.
It's like, okay, it's not being shot. Okay. Terrible. Yeah. Yeah. T-shirt cannon on it's on the top of the it's at the top of the dome, isn't it?
Yeah, that's what it looks like. Yeah, the tops and then it you get some air below. So it's well isn't the point of like if you get the cheap seats you like you I get it everybody sectioned off. It's like you're not entitled to a t-shirt right now how it goes.
I mean, I would argue if anything it should be the other way around. Like if you're paying if you got the big bucks to spend down low, you can buy a t-shirt. You could buy a t-shirt. You don't need a free one throwing your way and also there's a question of how many people down in those seats are actually fans of the team that you're watching. And so again, do you really need t-shirts if you're just there to be seen or you know there for work? May the diehards up top deserve your own free t-shirt. They wear they wear more less sounds like the rest of the world man. Rich people get all the good stuff and how it goes.
That's how it goes in a lot of cases. Rich people, you know, even even t-shirts congrats Steve Ballmer looking out for the little guy. He can't fix the Microsoft problem, but you can get you a t-shirt on the upper deck and make sure you do not have to stand in line.
Hickey. I wonder how you made so much money. He's a man's man. He's the people's owner.
The people's owner. Yeah. Good. We got to get him on here.
That'd be fun. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227.
Yeah, Hickey. Let's try to get him on there before they open this place up. I can reach out. Send some emails.
Yeah. Let's let's talk to Steve Ballmer about his Intuit Dome and his wonderful basketball team. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. Rich. He's calling from Chicago. You're on the JR Support Reshow. What's up, Rich? Hey, there, JR. First of all, I want to comment that you and Hickey do a great job as a team.
I love the topic. That's the reason I jumped on when you were talking about Sanders. I want to talk just briefly about Deion. And a couple of things struck me as why he isn't going to be long for Colorado. Two of the top 10 guys.
I looked up the top 10 paid NIL guys. He's got two of them. He's got a kid and he's got Travis Hunter who's the only non-quarterback that's in the money. Big money. Yeah. Seven-figure money.
Place two positions. Yeah. Well, I'm not denying that he may not be worth it. But, you know, first of all, when you go four and eight, and I think he's going to be lucky to go five and seven.
If you look at their schedule and who they've got, the NIL door for them, which has been something he's relied on, has been a revolving door. And I think when you spend that kind of money, I looked it up, Chidor and Hunter combined are around four and a half million dollars. Okay. All right. Guaranteed. Which struck me as being crazy for college football. But that's just two of them. And when you look at the turnover he has each year, it's going to be really hard to build a program. And I think when those two kids get drafted, and they will, I think both of them are top 10 draft picks.
And both of them are outstanding. What do you think is going to happen to Deion? I think he's gone.
Well, Rich, we said that. I think me, Marco, Hickey, did you agree on that? No, not too much. I think so. You think he's staying past this year? I do. Just to prove that he's not some runaway?
Yeah, I just also think he'll have many, it's either basically retire. Couch. Couch. I mean, that could be the option. TV, television. Television. Well, that's also true.
Yeah. Go ahead, Rich. What do you guys think the likelihood of him, after both of his stars, and the money drives up, and it will if he goes 4 and 8, 5 and 7, back to back. What do you think the likelihood of him trying to shift into the NFL and try to get an NFL job?
Because I don't think he's going to get another hot, big time college job. Well, I'll give you a recap. We talked about that. I'll give you a quick recap. It's okay, Rich.
Thank you for calling from Chicago. Yeah, I think he's going to leave, whether it's this year or next year. Maybe he saves space and sticks around for one more year. I don't give him past two years.
Definitely not. Marco Belletti thinks he's going to the Cowboys. I think he's going to television. And Hickey thinks he'll stick around for a year. Or something.
Is that right, Hickey? I don't want to put words in your mouth. Yeah, I mean, I don't think he's long there for like five years, but I don't think he's quitting after this year. Yeah, Deion will find something. He'll be on TV.
He doesn't strike me as a guy who's just going to sit around at home. And you know what? This is actually good, and it just popped into my head.
Hickey, it's actually nice that we haven't had to talk about any of Deion's health issues. Isn't that good? That is good.
You're right. Like, as of right now, the leg, the circulation, let's keep in mind, this man had to have, I don't even know. Does it matter how many toes he had amputated?
It does not matter. They were thinking about taking off this man's foot. That is crazy. Think about it. Deion Sanders is one of the best athletes you have ever seen in your life. They were talking about taking off this man's foot.
I mean, anybody. Take care of yourselves. Try your best. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network, 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Deion, Deion Sanders, we don't know what he's going to do. I know what Major League Baseball is trying to do. They're trying to do something that's pretty stupid. What else is new? I'll fill you in on the other side of the break. This is the JR Sport Reshow on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I need you to think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all of your car care needs.
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I don't know if this is stupid or if you've got no other choice. The Arena Bowl. Hickey, did you know the Arena Bowl might be done or taking place right now or something? Arena Bowl 33. Did you hear about it?
No, I have not. The Arena Football League is hosting the Arena Bowl 33 from the American Dream Mall in New Jersey. A site for a championship game unlike anything we've ever seen. It's in a mall. It's in that mall next to MetLife. The game itself is literally in the mall? They took like a big old plaza space in the mall.
You know how the mall somewhere has that big old atrium with the multiple levels? Yeah, they put a field. I don't know. How long is an arena football field? It don't matter. They just made one big enough to slap it in the mall and there's people there watching.
Not just pass-a-bys it looks like. I don't know. The game is today? It was at 5.30. 5.30 Eastern Time. That's ignorant. I didn't even know there was an Arena League still going on.
Neither did I. You're here with me on the air but it's not too late for you to go. How long will it take you to get to New Jersey? I mean three trains later. God, NJ Transit on a Friday? Probably get there maybe before midnight.
Arena Ball. You gotta go where the people are, right? Maybe they couldn't sell tickets.
Maybe this is a genius idea. Can't sell tickets? Well, where are people going to be? The mall. Not really, right? I guess you're right.
Not anymore. The people on Amazon? They gotta do it at the Amazon warehouse. Put the show on for all of the workers, man.
That'd be a good idea. Yeah, malls are going out of business, man. What about that? What are we going to do with all this retail space? What are we going to do with it?
Great question. Let's you play football in it. I guess that's maybe the future.
Maybe the Arena League is coming back. In malls? In abandoned malls.
Oh, man. Macy's. Macy's are getting closed down. Those are some big stores. Yeah, the malls are huge by itself. Isn't it crazy?
Isn't that crazy? People are still not even necessarily going to the movies the same way. Hickey, we are really two generations away from everybody sitting in their house on a computer all day. Never leaving. Remote working, movie theaters, and malls.
Probably the three biggest spaces that you could have are all in the process of, if not already, all abandoned. It's good to be in a sports business because people gotta go outside for it. You're right. You gotta be there. You gotta go outside. Yeah, that's a lot of land just sitting there. Yeah, come on, man. Gotta think of something creative.
Maybe more golf courses? Nobody going to the movies. Best Buy? It wasn't like something you went into a Best Buy. Great question. Years?
Oh, my God. I did go in once maybe four years ago for something. Yeah, four years ago. So there you go. I tried to go into a Best Buy that I thought was open, that I haven't been in in four or five years.
You know how I went, Hickey? It was closed. Like during normal business hours? Yeah, they shut down.
It doesn't exist. They shut it down. Oh, like permanently.
Permanently. Out of business. Not out to lunch.
Out of business. What am I buying from Best Buy besides something for my kitchen? You know, like a refrigerator or a microwave.
I'm not buying DVDs anymore. What am I going in there for? Can you even buy a microwave at Best Buy? I just thought it was all tech stuff. Computer, AirPod, gaming.
Washer and dryer. From Best Buy? Really? Yeah, they got a home section, yeah.
Oh, well, I guess hopefully it's online otherwise. Imagine all this retail space. For what? To sell you, the TVs aren't even big enough. You can sell all the TVs in one room. You don't need all this giant warehouse. Well, you're talking about like the next big idea. The next big idea. I mean, I don't know what to do with it, but like buy up these spaces.
The malls, the office spaces. Probably get a good deal on it. I don't know what the hell you do with them.
But if you want to have a chain that, you know, has an idea that's based on a lot of land. Kids play place. There you go.
You know what we need to do? Chuck E. Cheese 2.0. Yeah, well, they got all these things where the kids jump around in. Because parents don't want to hang out with.
They want to dump their kids somewhere to wear them out. So throw them in there, right? Maybe Chuck E. Cheese with like a bar section. That's Dave and Busters. Isn't that Dave and Busters?
Yeah, I guess you're right. It exists. Buffalo, is Buffalo Wild Wings for children? No, right? There's no games in there, is there?
There's no games. No, Dave and Busters is definitely what you're looking for there. Okay, so that idea is gone. But, you know, we're on the right track here.
Marco Balletti, what do we do with all these best buys and Macy's that are just closing up? What do we do with all this space? I do like the idea of having big giant spaces that kids can go unsupervised and be able to go there so that the parent doesn't have to stay. Not unsupervised where no one's watching, but unsupervised where the parent doesn't have to watch. That's called school. Basically, yeah. I need something where they're not in school that they can run around and not get completely destroyed.
But, you know, get a lot of energy out. And I don't have to be their watch. These places don't have windows, man. They don't have windows. You don't have windows. What do you need windows for? No windows.
They don't have windows. I'm not looking for the kid to look outside. I'm looking for him to stay inside. That's the whole point. If he's outside, I got to stay there and watch.
I don't want to watch. If you get 25 trampolines, you get some soft padding on the floor. There you go. Throw the kids in there. I mean, these places exist. Whatever, the Jimborees and all that stuff.
These places exist. We just need bigger ones. They're dirty. Kid comes out with a Band-Aid on his forehead. Like, where'd that Band-Aid come from? Well, that's the thing. That builds character, you know?
It's like the Chuck E. Cheese ball pit, you know? What, coming out with a Band-Aid? Like, who's Band-Aid? Is that your Band-Aid?
No, why you got a Band-Aid on your head? Disgusting. Well, you got a big warehouse. You got to have a first aid section.
It's in the corner. Listen, if I put my kid in a ball pit and he comes out with a Band-Aid on his forehead, I am dipping him in bleach. That's it?
You got to dip. I think it's more of a when, not if. It's happening. No, see, that I'm with you. I'm just, I make you feel better. You're not there.
You don't see it. He comes back to you after you drop them off for a while and he's got a Band-Aid on his forehead. Your mind goes to the first aid section in the corner and you say, did you get hurt? Did you go see the nurse? If he says no, then you're concerned. If he says yes, then we're all good.
Come on, man. I'm supposed to trust the school nurse. Shout out to the school nurses. Listen, I know somebody who's a school nurse.
The school nurse is just sitting around smoking a cigarette waiting for some hurt kid to come in. She's not doing nothing. They don't, they're not allowed to do anything with the kids anyway if they get hurt. I know, but I mean, I'm not thinking that there's major injuries with the kid. I mean, sometimes if you drop them off at these things and you assume that they're going to bust their ass at some point, you just hope they come back in one piece. And don't break nothing. That's what I mean.
As long as we don't have to stop at the emergency room on the way home, it's all good. I got to think of a name for this thing. I'll figure it out. Dump your kid?
Dump your kid. Yeah, like that. Look, they got it. They got a place.
They got a furniture place called the Dump. Why not? Why not? I mean, dump your kid. Dump your kid.
Go take a nap. Something like that. Something where it lets the parent know, leave your kid here.
You get a couple of hours to go do whatever the hell you got to do, and it's going to cost you money. And I'm telling you, hand over fist, parents, I can leave my kid here. Here you go. That's a genius idea. I love it. I love it.
Dump your kid. Yeah, I like it. No, no, there's too many crazy people out here. They're going to take that the wrong way.
I don't know about that. We got to come up with a different name. We'll work on that. It's the JR Sportbree Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break.
We come back. I'm going to tell you about a real stupid idea. It's from Major League Baseball. They're trying to promote a special weekend next year.
I'll tell you about it on the other side of the break while I come up with a name where you can dump your kid. You're listening to the JR Sportbree. Shout out. I love Nas. Nas from Queensbridge. I love Nas. Shout out to Nas.
It is the JR Sportbree. Man, that is so damn cool. I love Nas. Got a drop from Nas. Interviewed Nas. Things you don't think about in life.
Hickey, when Illmatic came out, I didn't think that I'd be talking to Nas, let alone open up a break. So thank you for making a dream come true. Of course.
I just pushed a button. You're the one who made it happen. But yeah, of course. That's good stuff. Anyway, that's good stuff.
Let me tell you about some, it's not bad stuff, but it's stupid stuff. Courtesy of Major League Baseball. As you just heard from Marco Belletti, baseball is back. The All-Star game is done. The All-Star break is finished. It's over.
You're going to blink in about a week and a half. We're going to get to the trade deadline. People are going to get traded.
People are going to get moved. Teams are going to go for it. We got all these damn teams in the postseason now, 12 of them.
So we're going to have more teams going for it than selling. It's a good part of the baseball season. But next year, baseball is doing some stupid things. This is not stupid. First of all, they got the Dodgers and the Cubs opening up their season in Japan.
Why not? Of course, they got a hickey if they could. They make Shohei Ohtani travel across the ocean half the damn year, man.
I bet you they would. Oh, yeah, I think you're right about that. Money grab and there does look like it's going to stop anytime soon. No, Shohei Ohtani is going to start the season in Japan for as long as he is playing for the Dodgers.
And then you got a shoulder, a moniker who pitches for the Cubs. And so why not? They want that match up.
Good for them. Make the money. Get it out the way and then come back stateside. Shohei Ohtani is just like, you're making me go again? I left there to make money here. I guess when you're making seven hundred million dollars, you'll do whatever they ask.
That's a good idea. This is a ridiculous one. It was announced that Major League Baseball. Is having. Rivalry week in twenty twenty five.
Mm hmm. Every match up. On this weekend, May 16th to the 18th. It's typically everybody will be a rival of each other, right? Listen to some of these matchups and I'm going to tell you, I think this is silly. You got the Mets at the Yankees, natural rivals, the Sox and the Cubs. You got the fake L.A. team versus the real one, the Angels and the Dodgers.
Battle of Pennsylvania, East versus West. You got Pittsburgh versus Phillies. You got the Cardinals and Kansas City. Got the Astros and the Rangers. You got Washington with the Nationals in Baltimore. Colorado and Arizona.
I guess close enough. The Braves at the Sox. Battle of Boston teams, I guess.
I guess. Twins in the Brewers. The Rays in Miami.
Battle of Florida. Detroit and Toronto. I guess you got across a border and then you got the A's and the Giants.
Hickey, can you help me out? This is something they just had to make up. What the hell does Seattle have to do with San Diego? Why are they playing against each other?
Well, that one, you know, I think you kind of run out of run out of rivals there. Two teams on the west. Just even though you're I don't even know how many miles away from each other.
Why not? It has to be. It got to be like a thousand miles, fifteen hundred, a thousand miles away from each other. Seattle is as north as you can go. San Diego is as south as you can go. And they just slapped them together because these are the two teams that had no rival.
I mean, what are we doing here? I mean, I would argue the Dodgers, Padres rivalry is better than Dodgers, Angels, and then you make the Angels play the Mariners. And, you know, you're going to have one or two matchups. Angels play the Mariners all the time. But you're going to have like one or two matchups that, you know, OK, we're stretching here, maybe. But at least I would say division rival is probably stronger than like the what are they called?
The Battle of the Freeway in L.A. Like, I don't know. Hickey, I feel like I need to be a what is someone who studies maps? Geographers. I don't know. I got nothing there. I'm going to be Christopher Columbus. OK, there's definitely a word for it.
I do not have it. Geographer. I'm a geographer. It is it is twelve hundred miles from Seattle to San Diego. Come on, come on, man. That's what I said.
I said a thousand twelve hundred. One of the spot on. I mean, I guess you could do the southernmost point on the West Coast, taking on the northernmost point. By the way, what you are, work with maps, a cartographer. Oh, maps. Yes.
I feel like I'm shorting myself. A geographer studies the earth and the distribution of its land features and inhabitants. I'm going to take that one.
OK, I'll be a geographer when I grow up. Anyway. Major, here's the thing that makes Rivalry Week so ridiculous. Like Major League Baseball had this with interleague play.
Like we got all of this. What makes all of this so special outside of the fact that they keep changing up the schedule? Like we used to have this when they introduced interleague. And I guess Major League Baseball felt that interleague play. Was too boring and then they didn't make it exclusive anymore. And now guys just you just play whoever whenever.
And so now they're trying to make it special again by having Rivalry Week. This is I'm not all that enamored. You want to know who else isn't enamored? An all star. Hunter Green.
Unfortunately for this this this man, he pitched he didn't pitch well the other day. He says the Guardians. They care more about this battle of Ohio than the Reds do.
Listen to what Hunter Green said. You know, that's such a funny question because we never talk about it as the Reds, but Cleveland always talks. I know multiple guys on the Guardians and they'll bring it up in like conversation. It's just not in our conversation in the clubhouse.
We're just kind of like whatever. But Cleveland is like definitely thinking about it and they don't play about it. Hickey, I don't I don't think do the players even care. They just want to get paid man.
They don't care. Do we have let's think about this with all the interleague play that we have in baseball right now. Do you think the players even care about rivalries?
They just want to check. I mean, there are definitely in terms of like spirited rivalries, not as many as maybe 20, 30 years ago. That's for sure. I think I mean, I like the idea. I will say I think with how long baseball season is, even if it is a little gimmicky. I don't mind having a week or a weekend of gimmicks when you have just I mean, how many weekends of baseball?
I do like that there's OK. This is a branded rivalry week where, you know, it's not just, oh, Cubs, White Sox. But now it's everyone playing for the most part.
We'll say because I know it's not for everybody, but for the most part, a local rival. I mean, I don't know how much juice it adds, but I think it's a nice touch. Let me know when the players get to wear the names on the jerseys on the back. Don't they get a weekend where they were the players can showcase their personalities by having custom names on the back. Oh, are they still doing that player's weekend?
Did they bring that back? I don't know. That's a good question. Let's see. I think is it this?
Yeah, no. So they'll have it this year, August 16th to 18th. So about a month from now, players weekend is returning with a new look. Oh, major.
This is so this is this this is when you know that what you're doing is so bad. This is all Major League Baseball's own website. During the weekend of August 16th to the 18th, MLB will celebrate players, personalities, their interests and their charitable causes they support. Why don't you do that all the damn time? Like, why are you doing this over a weekend? Major League Baseball to me is this is like it's like the absentee parent that just pops up on one weekend with gifts and thinks that's going to make everything better. No, everything still sucks. You're supposed to be there and show love all the damn time.
The fact that you got to show up with all these gifts is bad, man. The original players weekend featured specially designed uniforms, player nicknames on the back. That won't be the case this year. Players will be able to use custom bats, personalized cleats.
Specially designed new era caps. Whoopty doo. Whoopty doo.
Who runs baseball like a bunch of people like Jerry Jones, right? Is that what it is? JR, you left out the most important thing about players weekend.
What is it? Each day of the weekend there's a certain theme. Yeah, I skipped that part. Fun. Come on, you're not going to talk about that Friday is fun night?
Saturdays for causes and Sundays for appreciation? Aren't you now more intrigued? No. That's the fact that they have to do this is pathetic. Pathetic. I understand you.
Every sport needs uniformity, but the fact that baseball has to have a day dedicated to fun. It's like going over to Grandma's house. Hey, Grandma, what are we doing on Saturday? Having fun. What does that mean, Grandma? We're going to watch Wheel of Fortune all day long. Damn, man. Baseball is like, they're like, no.
What's the oldest show on TV? They're like, the price is right. They just don't change.
Just the people do, but they just don't change. Can't wait for players weekend next year. Maybe they'll realize that they should be having fun all year long. Good luck with rivalry week. I'll be watching as normal.
Good luck to baseball. Always coming up with the great ideas. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. This is going to be fun. In about 30 minutes, Emory Hunt from CBS Sports HQ is going to come through and join us. Always great chat with Emory. We're going to talk some NFL football.
And then you know what? This is this is all speaking NFL football. Hickey, I don't know if Shannon Sharpe is trying to start a fight with the NBA players again, but I think he might. Or maybe not. I'm going to tell you what Shannon Sharpe said.
You can hear it for yourself on the other side of the break. I'm going to ask Emory what he thinks. Shannon Sharpe is comparing basketball players and football players. We'll get into that. It's the JR Sport Reshow on the Infinity Sports Network.
We got more on the other side. Basketball, football, all of it. I ain't forget Tiger Woods. He needs to sit at home on the couch. He does.
